Daniel Donskoy

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Daniel Donskoy (born January 27, 1990 in Moscow , Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , Soviet Union ) is a German actor , director , theater producer and musician .

Life

Daniel Donskoy comes from a Ukrainian - Russian Jewish family. His mother was born in Ukraine and his father was Russian. In 1990, shortly after Donskoy's birth, the family moved to Berlin . He grew up speaking Russian , Hebrew , German and English as mother tongues. Donskoy started playing the piano at the age of five ; he sang in various choirs and taught himself to play the guitar . After his parents separated, his mother and her new partner went to Israel in 2002 , where he grew up in Tel-Aviv .

At the age of 18 he came back to Berlin in 2008. He initially wanted to study medicine , but then studied biology and media management before turning to the arts. He worked as a bartender at the Berlin cultural center Tacheles and also took on various jobs as a model . At the age of 20 he also took ballet lessons and auditioned at drama schools in Berlin, Munich and London .

Career

From 2011 to 2014 Donskoy completed an acting and musical training at the Arts Educational School in London , where he graduated with a Bachelor in Musical / Theater. In the summer of 2012 he also studied for a semester at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City . He made his theatrical debut in the play Porn Virgins by Maud Madeline and Sharlit Deyzac, which was performed in the summer of 2014 as part of the London Camden Fringe Festival. In the play he played the surfer Stan, who goes to London with his girlfriend from the United States, and after he is left by her, works as a porn actor.

He had other theater engagements in London at The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theater (2014), the Arcola Theater (2015), the Arts Theater in the West End (2015), the Garrick Theater (2015) and the St James Theater (2016). At the Nottingham Playhouse , he played Jim O'Connor in The Glass Menagerie in 2016 . Since 2015 he has also been working in London as a theater director, theater producer and playwright.

Donskoy also worked in several film and television productions. He has had roles in the UK series Detectorists (2015), Casualty (2016) and Victoria (2016). In February 2017 he was seen in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig in an episode role, which he spoke in English. He played the Israeli soldier Avi Cohen, who comes to Leipzig to avenge the death of his murdered mother. In November 2017, SOKO Köln was also seen in an episode role in the ZDF series . He played the fashion buyer Dominik "Nicky" Jansen, the suspect son of the manager of an online shopping platform. In December 2017, Donskoy was then seen in the 5th season of the ZDF series Heldt in an episode role as paleontology student Daniel.

Since January 2018, Donskoy has been playing the main role of the petty criminal and unwilling priest Maik Schäfer in the RTL series Sankt Maik alongside the actor sisters Bettina and Marie Burchard . For this role, Donskoy was nominated for the Bavarian TV Prize for "Best Actor". In the Dresden Tatort: ​​Who is Alone Now (first broadcast: May 2018), Donskoy embodied the attractive and self-assured young entrepreneur Andreas Koch, who in the end turns out to be an inscrutable sociopath and is convicted as a murderer. Since the crime scene: The Disappeared Child (first broadcast: February 2019), the 26th case of Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm , Donskoy has played the new forensic doctor Nick Schmitz. In 2019 Donskoy's film Crescendo premiered at the Munich Film Festival . Donskoy plays the overzealous violinist Ron, who joins an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, alongside Peter Simonischek .

In January 2019 he released his first single Cry by the river , which was followed by his debut EP Didn't I Say So in May .

Donskoy lives in London and Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Daniel Donskoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daniel Donskoy at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ^ Daniel Donskoy . Vita and profile at CAST FORWARD. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Alice Lanzke: DANIEL DONSKOY: "I have so much lamplight" . Portrait. In: Jüdische Allgemeine, May 28, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Actor Of The Month: Daniel Donskoy . Vita and interview 2015. Accessed March 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Alice Lanzke: Driven by the love of music: the Jewish musical artist Daniel Donskoy . Portrait. On: Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 22, 2013. Accessed March 1, 2017.
  6. ^ Daniel Donskoy . Vita. Official website of Arts Educational Schools London. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Daniel Donskoy . Vita on StageJobs.com. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ Porn Virgins: The Phoenix Artist Club . Performance review. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Saint Maik . In: rtl.de . ( rtl.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Bavarian Television Prize 2018. Accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  11. ^ "TATORT" FROM DRESDEN: You suffer from love in times of the Internet . Television review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 21, 2018. Accessed May 21, 2018.
  12. ↑ Interview with the "Tatort" murderer: Daniel Donskoy as a "Tatort" murderer: "A bizarre feeling" . Television review. In: Abendzeitung from May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  13. ↑ "CRIME SCENE" -STAR MARIA FURTWÄNGLER: "I wanted a partner" . In: BILD of February 3, 2019. Accessed February 5, 2019.
  14. ↑ Daniel Donskoy in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung on Crescendo. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ DIDN'T I SAY SO EP DONSKOY. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Donskoy, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, theater producer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Federation